Im-mu'ni-ty, n.

n. [Lat. immunitas, from immunis, free from a public service; prefix im, for in, not, and munus, service, duty; Fr. immunité, Pr. immunitat, It. immunità, Sp. inmunidad.] 1. Freedom from an obligation; exemption from any charge, duty, office, tax, or imposition; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy. Granting great immunities to the commons, they prevailed so far as to cause Palladius to be proclaimed successor. Sidney. They deny even to the departed the sad immunities of the grave. Burke. 2. Freedom; as, an immunity from error. Dryden. Man is frail, and can but ill sustain A long immunity from grief or pain. Cowper.